Another Special Welcome...

... to all you garden-geeks arriving from VegPlotting!

(NSW, Non-Steam Wife) is still clearly generating a lot of traffic to Sentinel 7109. So here's another little gem of a posting especially for you!

Midsomer Norton won many competitions for best kept station and particularly for its horticultural efforts. As well as the greenhouse, there was the 'Sun, Moon and Stars' astronomical garden creation between the station building and the roadway.

In this 1922 photo, the garden is clearly in good order.

Midsomer Norton Station 1922
(Courtesy Richard Dagger Collection)

However, at the start of 2002, the garden was in a very sorry state with the area only mapped-out and not seemingly too fertile!

1st Jan 2002

1st Jan 2002 again
Note the appropriate sign beyond the buffer stop!

By the middle of 2005, the garden had been put back in place creating a reasonably authentic reproduction of the original. (Note - when the Silver Street bridge was removed, the area for the Sun, Moon and Stars was also cut-off in its prime; hence the new garden is actually slightly smaller than it used to be - but that's progress!).

7th July 2005 has the garden in place
and a steamy thing inhabiting the background!

Jumping to 2011, the Sun, Moon and Stars are resplendent in bright colours and a credit to the volunteers who look after it.

30th August 2011 

30th August 2011 again

Keep up the good work!